Frecce Tricolori 55th Anniversary

This year the Italian Air Force display team Frecce Tricolori celebrated the 55th Anniversary since its foundation.
To celebrate this event, a unusually (for Italy) big airshow was organized on their homebase, Rivolto military airport.
The Italian Air Force showed almost all its airplanes, and several foreign display teams and airplanes were invited.

Legend Formation, composed by almost every Italian Air Force trainer since WW2: North American T-6 Texan, Fiat G.59, Aermacchi MB.326, MB.339A, MB.339CD and M.346

AW149

HH-101 Caesar, SpecOps version of the AW101

M.346

A flight of Typhoon with tails dedicated to top scoring WW1 Italian Ace Francesco Baracca

A replica of Francesco Baracca’s Spad XIII. Does the prancing horse drawing on its fuselage look familiar to you? It was Baracca’s personal symbol, and after his death the Baracca family donated the symbol to a young Enzo Ferrari, telling him “Put this symbol on your racing cars. It will bring you luck”. The only change was the tail, moved to upright position.

F-2000 Typhoon

Inflight refueling demo between KC-130J and HH-101…

…and between KC-767 and Tornado with AMX

Frecce Tricolori, which sported a slightly revised livery to celebrate the anniversary.